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Abnormal cases coming under the supervision of the
Assistant Medical Officers at the Clinics are recommended
for admission to Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, and to
Forest Gate Hospital for treatment, at which hospitals
specialist service is available.
Cases under the care of general practitioners are admitted
after consultation with the Medical Officer of Health to Queen
Mary's, Whipps Cross, or the London Maternity Hospitals.
Similarly the Burges Road Home works in conjunction with
the Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
Isolation and Nursing of Serious Puerperal Cases.—
These cases are admitted to hospitals, already mentioned.
When the Maternity Hospital is erected, provision will be
made for an Isolation Ward for treatment of these cases.
Proposed Maternity Hospital.
That they have considered the joint report of the Borough
Engineer and the Medical Officer of Health relative to the proposed
Maternity Hospital on the Durban House Site, together
with the draft plans prepared by the Borough Engineer, and
recommend that the Town Clerk be directed to request the East
Ham Memorial Hospital Committee to appoint members to confer
with your Sub-Committee at an early date on the whole question
of the provision of Maternity Hospital accommodation in East
Ham.
Birth Control.
In a report to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
dated September, 1934, Circular 1408 of May, 1934, issued by
the Minister of Health, subsequent to Memo. 153, March, 1931,
was fully dealt with. The Memo, stated that any Departmental
sanction which might be necessary to the establishment of such
clinics would only be given on the following conditions:—
(1) That the clinics will be available only for women
who are in need of medical advice and treatment for
gynaecological conditions, and (2) that advice on contraceptive
methods will be given only to married women who attend
the clinics for such medical advice or treatment, and in whose
cases pregnancy would be detrimental to health.